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Body, Main, Medium, Mind

Understanding dependencies

Reflection questions to help you understand your dependencies.

16th July 2026
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Heart, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Feelings and energy board

A board to map the team’s feelings and energy levels.

13th July 2026
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Body, Gender, Main, Medium, Mind

Beyond civilisational feminism

Towards a decolonial feminism.

8th May 2026
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium

Developing somatic bandwidth

Cultivating responsiveness to create more equitable systems.

29th April 2026
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Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind

Pleasure questions game

Reconnecting with the child within.

1st July 2025
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

The wheel of emotions and feelings

A compass to name your emotions and feelings and build emotional regulation in teams.

6th August 2024
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Body, Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Emotional regulation in teams

Strategies to regulate emotions in individuals and teams.

6th August 2024
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Dessert, Hard, Heart, Soul

Returning to community to resolve conflicts

Practices to restore a community from an individual’s damaging behaviour.

12th June 2024
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Easy, Heart, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Establishing group agreements

A process to define agreements to work in groups.

12th June 2024
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Gender, Main, Starter

Breastfeeding positions

Tips on different positions to adopt to support breastfeeding.

12th June 2024
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Easy, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Handprints to embrace uniqueness in teams

A creative tool to map team uniqueness.

25th October 2023
Illustration of the 4 quadrants of the AQAL model: attitudes and psyche, behaviours and competencies, structures and processes, and culture and communication. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Heart, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

The AQAL model

A tool to map the external and internal dimensions of new work organisations.

24th July 2023
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Soul

Compassionate listening

Tips to cultivate deep listening.

5th July 2023
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Starter, Youth

Creating rain storm

An energiser to gather the attention of a group.

10th April 2023
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Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Neurodiversity in the modern workplace

Understanding the benefits and challenges of a neurodiverse inclusive workforce.

1st March 2023
Illustration of a wheel with 11 spokes: ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, first language, physical/emotional/developmental (dis)ability, age, religious or spiritual affiliation, and race. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Main, Medium, Mind

The wheel of social identity

Mapping visible and invisible social identities.

22nd February 2023
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Easy, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Recognising brain strengths

A tool to map and celebrate different brain qualities.

22nd February 2023
Illustration of a wheel with 12 spokes: skin colour, formal education, ability, sexuality, neuro-diversity, mental health, body size, housing, wealth, language, gender, and citizenship. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Hard, Heart, Main

The wheel of power and privilege

Mapping marginalisation in an intersectional way.

7th February 2023
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Dessert, Main, Medium, Organisations, Starter

5 stages of team development

Understanding the internal characteristics influencing the performance of your team.

11th January 2023
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Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Personal user manual

Boosting teamwork by sharing personal user manuals.

15th November 2022
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Heart, Main, Medium, Soul, Youth

Portraiture

A creative activity to uncover your inner and outer self.

25th July 2022
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Dessert, Heart, Medium, Soul

Healing communication

Four practices to communicate in ways that support trauma healing.

25th July 2022
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Main, Medium, Organisations

The Humankind Index

Measure wellbeing using Oxfam’s Humankind Index.

8th June 2022
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Body, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

6 red flags of burnout

Notice red flags in your team to avoid burnout.

23rd May 2022
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Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

How to be inclusive of autism in recruitment practices

Cater for greater diversity and inclusivity in your recruitment.

23rd May 2022
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Main, Medium, Soul

Happy Planet Index

Use the Happy Planet Index for sustainable wellbeing.

4th May 2022
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Main, Medium

Multidimensional Poverty Index

Understand the multidimensions behind poverty.

4th May 2022
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Gender, Main, Medium, Organisations

Strategies to support LGBTQIA2S+ folks in the workplace

Strategies for increased inclusion.

20th April 2022
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Easy, Gender, Heart, Organisations, Soul, Starter

LGBTQIA2S+ allies in the workplace

Be an active ally for LGBTQIA2S+ colleagues.

11th April 2022
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Main, Medium, Organisations

Inspiration from Ngā Tūtohu Aotearoa

Inspiration from New Zealand’s wellness practices.

28th March 2022
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Heart, Medium, Starter

Mind mapping for grief

An exercise to work through the heaviness of grief.

21st March 2022
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Organisations

Talking mental health in the workplace

Skills to discuss mental health concerns with work colleagues.

25th February 2022
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Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

4 tips to avoid WFH burnout

Tips to avoid burnout while working from home.

25th February 2022
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Hard, Main, Organisations

Asking powerful questions in your organisation

Deep questions to stir up new, creative ideas for the success of your organisation.

20th February 2022
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Heart, Main, Medium, Soul

Creating a 4-day workweek

Evaluating and implementing a four-day workweek for organisations.

31st January 2022
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Heart, Main, Medium, Soul

Vulnerability and honesty at the dinner table

An opportunity to build community by having a dinner with guests who can engage in memorable open and honest conversation.

31st January 2022
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Easy, Heart, Mind, Soul, Starter

The gift of poetry

Using metaphors to turn your emotional states into poetic gifts.

9th April 2021
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Heart, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Introducing New Work into your workplace

Building the foundations of New Work in your workplace.

24th March 2021
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Soul

Positive introductions

Allowing people to get to know your best self.

17th March 2021
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Heart, Medium, Organisations, Starter

Connecting through music

A music-based activity to get to know each other in a different way.

1st March 2021
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Body, Gender, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Women’s health and wellbeing in the workplace

A set of principles to advance women’s health and wellbeing in the workplace.

4th February 2021
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Heart, Mind, Organisations

Digital check-outs

Our best check-outs for online meetings.

2nd February 2021
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Body, Easy, Heart, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Digital check-ins

Our best check-ins for online meetings.

2nd February 2021
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Medium, Starter

Digital eye gazing meditation

A digital soul-connecting meditation.

3rd January 2021
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Body, Easy, Heart, Mind, Soul, Starter

Nurture your compassion roots

A reflective journaling practice to root yourself in compassion.

5th December 2020
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Gender, Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Organisations

Gender equality through a norm-critical workplace

Cultivating gender equality in the workplace.

13th November 2020
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Dessert, Easy, Heart, Mind

House of Wellbeing

A virtual house with thematic rooms to deepen connections.

11th November 2020
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Body, Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind, Soul

Creating ripples

Spreading ripples of love, hope, and happiness.

17th September 2020
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Body, Heart, Medium, Starter

Arm linking

A vulnerability exercise to build a sense of connection and shared humanity.

6th May 2020
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Dessert, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Starter

Mitigating aftershock for activists

Tips for activists to avoid or mitigate aftershock.

8th March 2020
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind

Words matter

What do you say when you talk about mental health?

21st February 2020
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Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Mental health in the workplace

Tips to create a mentally healthy workplace.

21st February 2020
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Organisations

Cultivating presence

Cultivating presence through deep listening and inquiry without imposition.

18th February 2020
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Main, Medium, Mind

Social universe

A reflective activity to define your social universe.

12th February 2020
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Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind, Organisations

The ladder of inference

A tool to minimise misunderstandings.

29th December 2019
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Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind

Ring theory

Drawing your circle of support.

27th December 2019
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

Take a step forward

A powerful activity to raise awareness about inequality of opportunity and foster empathy.

21st September 2019
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Soul

10 ways to enjoy happiness at work

Tips to boost happiness at work.

19th September 2019
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Easy, Mind, Organisations, Starter

The life map

A tool to share your story and connect.

27th July 2019
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Easy, Mind, Starter

Email like a boss

Tips to reformulate your emails to build assertiveness.

27th July 2019
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Dessert, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Organisations as inquiring systems

Questions to assess your organisation’s capabilities.

26th July 2019
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Body, Medium, Mind, Starter

The wheel of awareness

A time-in practice to integrate consciousness.

5th July 2019
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Gender, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Identifying bias in performance evaluations

Four patterns to identify bias in performance evaluations.

4th July 2019
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind

Unlimited empathy

A group activity to foster empathy and deepen the bonds.

1st July 2019
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Hard, Main, Mind, Organisations

Mental health for employers

A step-by-step toolkit to boost mental health at work.

30th June 2019
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Body, Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Soul

Crossing the line

A deep activity to build diversity awareness within a group.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Easy, Heart, Mind, Organisations

Inspiration jar

A small intervention to boost inspiration and creativity in your team or office.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Easy, Heart

What I love about you

A group activity to celebrate each other and foster gratefulness.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Easy, Heart

Sugar cubes

A quick way to cultivate gratitude.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Heart, Medium

Positive gossiping

A group activity to celebrate each other and foster gratefulness in a fun way.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Easy, Heart

Heart-to-heart hug

A deeply nourishing and connecting hug.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Heart, Medium, Organisations

Gratitude fountain

A powerful activity to nurture gratefulness in a group.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Heart, Medium

Appreciation shower

A deep activity to cultivate gratitude and touch people’s hearts.

30th June 2019
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Hard, Main, Mind

SDG3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Global commitment to wellbeing.

30th June 2019
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

The PERMA model

A model for psychological wellbeing.

29th June 2019
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Main, Medium, Mind

The river of life

Exploring the flow that connects our changemaker journey.

29th June 2019
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Hard, Main, Soul

Truth mandala

A ritual to honour our pain for the world so as to heal from it.

29th June 2019
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Hard, Heart, Main, Organisations

Transforming conflict

Using the heart to transform conflict into an opportunity.

29th June 2019
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

Privilege walk

A powerful activity to uncover the layers of privilege in our lives.

29th June 2019
Illustration of a group of people sitting on a couch blindfolded. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Heart, Main, Medium

Dialogue in the dark

A bonding experience to increase openness and trust in a group.

29th June 2019
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Council circle

An ancient form of meeting to listen to everyone and attend to the wellbeing of the group.

29th June 2019
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Hard, Main, Mind, Organisations

Collaboration questions

How does collaboration look like in our team?

29th June 2019
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Soul

BRAVING

A check-list to trust others and ourselves and brave the wilderness.

29th June 2019
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Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Active listening

Promoting understanding and improving communication through listening.

29th June 2019
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Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Action learning set

A group-coaching activity to help someone get unstuck and move forward.

29th June 2019
Illustration of two males sitting on the grass talking intensely to each other. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Heart, Main, Medium, Mind

36 Qs for increasing closeness

A deeply connecting practice to increase closeness with others.

29th June 2019
Illustration of three womxn of colour in a workplace setting. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Gender, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Stopping micro-aggressions for women of colour in employment

A set of examples to raise awareness of micro-aggressions for women of colour in employment.

29th June 2019
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Body, Heart, Medium, Starter

Releasing energy

Creating a shield to protect you from negative energy.

28th June 2019
Illustration of two people standing in front of each other and pressing their hands together to maintain balance. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Easy, Starter

Mindful awareness through the body

Using the body to cultivate mindful awareness and become responsive.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a person with a prosthetic leg sitting on a chair in a meditative pose. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Easy, Heart, Starter

Heart-breathing meditation

A breathing technique to fill your heart with compassion.

28th June 2019
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Heart, Mind, Soul, Starter

Gratitude walk

A trust-based exercise to appreciate the fullness of life.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a person sitting on the floor with a weekly calendar around them. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Main, Medium, Soul

7 practices for peace

A seven-day programme to transform you into a peacemaker.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a pair of hands typing an email on a laptop. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Easy, Mind, Starter

Mindful emailing

Improving your relationship with emails.

28th June 2019
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Easy, Heart, Soul, Starter

Giving and receiving circle

A space for us to come together, hold space, connect and experience giving and receiving.

28th June 2019
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Body, Easy, Heart, Mind, Starter

EQ check-in

A quick check-in practice to foster emotional intelligence in a group.

28th June 2019
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Easy, Heart, Mind, Starter

Empathic conversations

Stepping towards empathy and compassion.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a group of people talking to each other in an office setting. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Hard, Heart, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Creating the right work spaces

Setting up your work space to encourage high performance in your organisation.

28th June 2019

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